Abstract:
:Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is an endogenously produced nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor. L-Arginine can be metabolised by NOS and arginase, and arginase is the first step in polyamine production necessary for cellular proliferation. We tested the hypothesis that ADMA would inhibit NOS but not arginase activity and that this pattern of inhibition would result in greater L-arginine bioavailability to arginase, thereby increasing viable cell number. Bovine arginase was used in in vitro activity assays with various concentrations of substrate (L-arginine, ADMA, N(G) -monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) and N(G) -nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME)). Only L-arginine resulted in measurable urea production (Km = 6.9 ± 0.8 mmol/L; Vmax = 6.6 ± 0.3 μmol/mg protein per min). We then incubated bovine arginase with increasing concentrations of ADMA, L-NMMA and L-NAME in the presence of 1 mmol/L l-arginine and found no effect of any of the tested compounds on arginase activity. Using bovine pulmonary arterial endothelial cells (bPAEC) we determined the effects of ADMA on nitric oxide (NO) and urea production and found significantly lower NO production and greater urea production (P < 0.003) with ADMA, without changes in arginase protein levels. In addition, ADMA treatment resulted in an approximately 30% greater number of viable cells after 48 h than in control bPAEC. These results demonstrate that ADMA is neither a substrate nor an inhibitor of arginase activity and that in bPAEC ADMA inhibits NO production and enhances urea production, leading to more viable cells. These results may have pathophysiological implications in disorders associated with higher ADMA levels, such as pulmonary hypertension.
journal_name
Clin Exp Pharmacol Physioljournal_title
Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiologyauthors
Chen B,Strauch K,Jin Y,Cui H,Nelin LD,Chicoine LGdoi
10.1111/1440-1681.12252subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2014-07-01 00:00:00pages
469-74issue
7eissn
0305-1870issn
1440-1681journal_volume
41pub_type
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